Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 665. 
Family MERIT II REFT ID JE. 
DOROTHINA LEWINII. 
YELLOW-EARED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 530.) 
Meliphaga (Ptilotis) lewinii Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 326, July 1st, 1837 : 
New South Wales ; new name for Meliphaga chrysotis Lewin, not Certhia chrysotis 
Latham, which is referable to this genus. 
Melipliaga chrysotis Lewin, Birds of New Holland, pi. 5, 1808 : New South Wales. 
Meliphaga [ Ptilotis) lewinii Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 326, 1837; Mathews, 
List Birds Austr., p. 273, 1913. 
Ptilotis chrysotis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xix. (Vol. IV., pi. 32), June 1st, 1845. 
Ptilotis lewinii Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 503, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Bond.), 1875, p. 595, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 
1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 229, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 41, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 386, 1901 ; Godfrey, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 169, 1905 
(Vic.); Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 238, 1910 (N.Q.); Campbell, ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 106, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Ptilotis chrysotis Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 95, 1908; Cleland, Emu, Vol. XI., 
p. 91, 1911 (Food); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 143, 1915 (Mallacoota); 
Harvey Bros., ib., Vol. XIX., p. 39, and pi., 1919 (Q.) ; S. A. White, ib., p. 220, 
1920 (Q.). 
Ptilotis lewinii lewinii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 404, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis lewinii nea Mathews, ib. : (Dandenong) Victoria. 
Ptilotis lewinii mab Mathews, ib. : Inkerman, Queensland. 
Ptilotis lewinii ivi Mathews, ib.. p. 405 ; Barron River, Queensland. 
Meliphaga lewinii Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 273, 1913. 
Meilphaga lewinii lewinii Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga lewinii nea Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga lewinii mab Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga lewinii ivi Mathews, ib. 
Dorothina lewini lewini Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., p. Ill, 1914. 
Dorothina lewini nea Mathews, ib. 
Dorothina lewini mab Mathews, ib. 
Dorothina lewini ivi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Barron River, North Queensland, to Victoria. 
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